Patrick Bednarski

University of Greifswald, Germany

Patrick Bednarski studied biochemistry at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, and then moved to Seattle, in 1981, to work on his dissertation under the supervision of Sidney D. Nelson at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Following the completion of his Ph.D. degree in 1986, he accepted an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship in Germany to work as a Postdoc at the Laboratories of Helmut Schönenberger at the Institute of Pharmacy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, where he did his Habilitation degree in pharmaceutical chemistry. He has been a Member of the Faculty of the Institute of Pharmacy at the University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, since 1998. Bednarski’s research interests centre on the development of new chemotherapies for cancer.